Unterauhof tower hill

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Unterauhof tower hill
Unterauhof

Unterauhof

Creation time : Mentioned in 1372
Castle type : Niederungsburg, moth
Conservation status: Burgstall, tower hill, ring moat
Place: Mainleus - Unterauhof
Geographical location 50 ° 5 '50.5 "  N , 11 ° 23' 45.1"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 5 '50.5 "  N , 11 ° 23' 45.1"  E
Height: 294.6  m above sea level NHN
Unterauhof tower hill (Bavaria)
Unterauhof tower hill

The Tower Hill Under Auhof is an Outbound medieval moated castle from the type of a motte (moth) at 294.6  m above sea level. NHN on the northern edge of Unterauhof (house no. 2), a district of the Mainleus market in the district of Kulmbach in Bavaria .

In 1372 the Lords of Waldenfels were first attested as the owners of the castle. From 1426 the castle belonged to the Wernstein manor.

The moth enclosure consists of a well-preserved, three-meter-high core mound with an area of ​​17 by 20 meters and is surrounded by a 10-meter-wide ring trench . Instead of the original tower building, a servants 'or delivery house was built after the Thirty Years' War , using wall blocks and parts of a barrel vault from the previous building.

The current appearance of the house was created in the 19th century. In 1991 the municipality of Mainleus acquired the damaged house and had it repaired in 1995.

literature

  • Denis André Chevalley (arr.): Upper Franconia . Ed .: Michael Petzet , Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (=  Monuments in Bavaria . Volume IV ). Oldenbourg, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-486-52395-3 .
  • Hellmut Kunstmann : Castles on the Upper Main with a special tribute to the Plassenburg. In: THE PLASSENBURG. Writings for local research and cultural maintenance in East Franconia, Volume 36, City Archives Kulmbach (Ed.), Kulmbach 1975.

Web links

  • Entry on Unterauhof in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The tower hill of Mainleus sub Auhof on the side landschaftsmuseum.de